Word: without
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...WITHOUT intending to dispel any fair dream of present happiness that may dwell in the mind of any youthful student during the first few months of his college life, we may recall our experience and by comparison hope to arrive at some agreeable conclusions...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...
...impossible, without transgressing our limits, to do justice to the endless variety of good things afforded by our author. There is something noble, however, in Mr. Josselyn, which excites our regard for his "chivalry" (a word which he uses with affection and frequency). Although he proves incontestably that "the newrigged Ship of State" is pursuing...
...hospital. This will be a great comfort to tormented chums, who can see to it that their persecutors spend the most of their time there. It is to be hoped, also, that after the winter's discussions, the warm days of spring will not be allowed to pass without putting theory into practice, in a little pit in some shady spot known only to the initiated...
...have received a communication bearing rather hard on the two Sophomore societies, the Institute and the Athenaeum. It accuses them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then...